Profile

Portfolio: Student Registry services, including management of the official records for all students and development of services to academic and administrative staff and students.

What is your day job?

I have managed the Registry Services section of the Academic Registry since 2006. I am enthusiastic about the opportunities to improve our services that the student records system offers and am proud that we have pioneered developments in some areas that lead within the sector.

I have paid particular attention to communication and consultation with departments, introducing regular meetings with departmental administrators and organising meetings of ‘interest’ groupings such as Postgraduate Admissions tutors, Chairs of Boards of Examiners and Boards of Studies, induction for External Examiners. I am always looking for opportunities to see how we can build on these initiatives.

Register of interests

• Elvington School: Local Authority Governor
• Previously a Parent Governor at Fulford School for four years

Roles and responsibilities

My role at York

I manage Registry Services for staff, students and their families, graduates and other stakeholders, including

• Enrolment and re-enrolment of students
• Administration of formal examinations for taught programmes of study
• Administration of research degree examinations
• Provision of official documentation for and about our past and present students
• Maintenance, enhancement and improvements to the student records system
• Management of the interfaces between the student system and other University software systems (e.g. Finance, HR, Accommodation, Timetabling) Establishment of HYMS
• Organization of the University’s graduation ceremonies, both on-campus and overseas
• Management of the formal interface between the University and the Criminal Records Bureau, and the UK Border Agency and our visa-holding students

Other responsibilities

I provide the administrative liaison point between the York Academic Registry, the University of Hull Student Administrative Service and the Hull-York Medical School (HYMS)

I am the Lead Countersignatory for the CRB service in the University and the Key Contact for Tier 4 of the UK Border Agency’s points-based immigration system at York.

I am currently involved with:

• Standing Committee on Assessment
• Campus Access Systems Integration Group
• Mitigating Circumstances Working Party
• CRB/ISA Implementation Team
• Controlled Open Assessments Working Group

CV in brief

I trained as a school teacher and taught for a short time before moving into employment in the private sector, working for a number of firms in the City of London. I spent 13 years at London Guildhall University (now part of London Metropolitan University) and five years at the University of Waikato in New Zealand before taking up a post at York in July 2000. 

I also completed a BA at the University of North London in 1991, majoring in Women’s Studies.